Another Code Camp is in the books!

Once again the Philly.Net users group put on another great Code Camp! 

I didn't get there till about 10:30 (since I wasn't speaking till 4:10PM) so I missed the first to sessions.

The sessions I attended were :

• "SharePoint Disaster Recovery, Backup and more…" presented by Bob Fox
• The description of this session caught my eye right off the bat.  Since I mostly work on the development side, DR and Backup aren't something I spend a lot of my time on.  Bob did a great job of walking you through the steps to backup and restore a farm or a single site collection.  In addition he told you the pros and cons of using the SharePoint Central Administration site versus going old school with the command line stsadm.exe.
• "InfoPath 2007 with Visual Studio 2008" presented by Michael Lotter
• Since I don't know much about InfoPath I figured I would attend Michael's session.  I'm glad that I did, he did a good job of going over the basics of InfoPath forms, how to build them and how to deploy them to SharePoint.  He also used Visual Studio 2008 and show you how you can use the new tools without problems (well...without any major problems).
• "Delivering Modular SharePoint Workflow Functionality via Components" presented by David Mann
• Since I attended 2 previous SharePoint tracks I figured I'd keep with the trend in addition, David Mann was presenting and his past presentations have been really informative.  I have to say he didn't disappoint.  He gave a really good ground up presentation of Windows Workflow.  I am definitely going to have to get his slides and code so that I can start messing around with workflow's a bit more inside SharePoint.

My presentation went pretty well and there was a decent crowd.  I still need to work on my presentation skills a bit though.  One major thing is that I need to keep a "cheat sheet" next to me while I present.  I noticed that I kind of loose focus while I am presenting and I think that if I had a "cheat sheet" next to me it might help me keep focus and on track. 

Afterwards all the speakers meet at a local bar near DeVry for some food and a few beers.  I had a great time meeting a few of the other speakers whom I hadn't met before.  I found out a lot of the speakers had come from other area's, some from NYC and even a few from the North Carolina area (Michael Lotter). 

Once I get done cleaning/commenting the code samples and presentation I plan on polishing it up a bit more and possibly presenting it elsewhere.